How do I remove Crowd version and build information from the footer
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Purpose
You may wish to remove Crowd version and build number from the footer of Crowd logon and other pages to prevent that information from being visible to your end-users or to avoid potential vulnerabilities or limitations from being exposed.
Solution
To remove version information from the login page
- Open the
<crowd-installation-directory>/crowd-webapp/console/decorator/wrm.jspfile with a text editor Uncomment the following line at the bottom of the file
From this:<input id="crowd-version" type="hidden" value="<ww:text name="common.words.version"/>: <ww:property value="@com.atlassian.crowd.util.build.BuildUtils@getVersion()"/>">To this<!--<input id="crowd-version" type="hidden" value="<ww:text name="common.words.version"/>: <ww:property value="@com.atlassian.crowd.util.build.BuildUtils@getVersion()"/>">-->- Save the file
To remove version information from the other pages
- Open the
<crowd-installation-directory>/crowd-webapp/console/decorator/default.jspfile with a text editor Uncomment the following line at the bottom of the file
From this:<ww:text name="common.words.version"/>: <ww:property value="@com.atlassian.crowd.util.build.BuildUtils@getVersion()"/>To this<!--<ww:text name="common.words.version"/>: <ww:property value="@com.atlassian.crowd.util.build.BuildUtils@getVersion()"/>-->- Save the file
You may need to clear your browser cache if refreshing the page does not help. Alternatively, you may try Clearing the Crowd Plugin Caches.
